The latest I’ve seen is that they are bulldozing a path through all of the debris to get fire engines/water cannons close enough to lob streams of water into the pool.
I hope they got the proper permits to destroy the delicate ecosystem with bulldozers...
I recall a huge fire a few years back around , over, and on the Hanford area in SE Washington that eventually burned like 240,000 acres and threatend all of the old Dept. of Defense plutonium producing reactors, and facilities and the states only commercial reactor. It was caused by a farmer and at the same time a semi truck hauling a large dozer came up on it. However the dozer operator was not allowed to get his rig off the truck and cut a fire line around the then infant blaze because of the designated naional scenic wildlife area and some pinhead bureacrat that had been contacted said no... It cost millions to fight the fire and damages to private properties.
Of course when the private parties went to get money from Uncle Sugar they were told sorry, so they sued and were told in court that they had no standing to recover costs against the federal government...
“The latest I’ve seen is that they are bulldozing a path through all of the debris to get fire engines/water cannons close enough to lob streams of water into the pool.”
I just saw this on the news. This has to be their Custer’s Last Stand move. This is an act of despiration when no other alternatives exists.
The power company seems to be running this whole show with no government involvement. I am beginning to believe that Japan is not being told the truth. Hell the Whitehouse spokesperson told a reporter when asked about the situation he came back and said “ask your own reporter’s”.
Think about what this plan means, everyone; what is the unspoken admission revealed by this plan, or, for that matter, the dumping of boronated water by helicopters? (btw, boron is not being used as a fire supressant here as some idiot reporter claimed, but to absorb radioactive particles)
What no one seems to have noticed about these schems is that it means the pool in No. 4 (which the NRC is now convinced is dry) is fully exposed to the air right now, and that it is open enough such that a water hose from several meters (possibly 20 meters away) can shoot in there.